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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "you will be given 30%" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
  • "transaction is risk free" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
  • "there is no risk involved" (almost true for the criminal - arrests of online criminals are rare)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +2348082136663 (Nigeria, prepaid mobile phone)

Fraud email example:

From: "frank musa" <frank_musa@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: frankmusa07@sify.com
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:55:20 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED

Dear Sir/Ma,
I greet you in the name of GOD, the Beneficent, and the Merciful. Before I
introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail
and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer fund to overseas
account the sum of ($30,000.000.00 USD)Thirty Million United States Dollars)
from a Bank here in Nigeria West Africa. I want to ask you, If you are
capable to quietly provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank account immediately to receive this fund,even an empty account can
serve to receive this fund,
as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important
business,trusting in you and believing in God that you will never let me
down either now or in future.
I AM Dr FRANK MUSA,I WORK WITH FIDELITY BANK PLC During the course of our
auditing last week, I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the
bank in 1997 and since 1999 till date, nobody has operated on this account
again, after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a
beneficiary to the account hence the money is floating and if I do not remit
this fund out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson of 61, of Fairbanks, Alaska
an American and a great industrialist,business leader and largest private
land owner resident of Fairbanks City Alaska State who nfortunately lost his
life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed,
including his wife(Thelma Thompson)and only daughter(Sheryl Thompson)leaving
nobody to claim the fund.
No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well
that the account is a secret account. The total amount involve is Thirty
Million United States Dollars only [$30,000.000.00]and I wish to transfer
this fund into a safe foreigners account abroad. But I don't know any
foreigner; I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this fund cannot
be approved to a local person
here, but to a foreigner who has information about the account, which I
shall give to you upon your positive response. I am revealing this to you
with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business,you are
the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business. So,
please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take
urgently.
I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I guarantee
that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. The bank official will destroy
all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no
trace to any place. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal
approvals for onward
transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the
relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.Furthermore, the
transaction is Risk Free, there is no risk involved and the utmost paramount
of this transaction is Secret and Confidential due to my 15 years of
meritious service with the Fidelity Bank Plc.Which I don’t want it to be
jeopardized.
All correspondence should be by phone and by email,I will be extremely happy
if you can abide to my instructions, I believe the sky shall be our limit
and willing to invest in your area of specialization at the end of this
transaction. Feel free to contact me directly via my email address or
telephone.+2348082136663
Thanks for your anticipated co-operation

Dr Frank Musa
Fidelity Bank Plc
You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
URGENT REPLY NEEDED

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